The ruins of Takht-e Soleymān, where the fire of Adur Gushnasp was stored.
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Adur Gushnasp (Middle Persian: 𐭠𐭲𐭥𐭫𐭩 𐭦𐭩 𐭢𐭱𐭭𐭮𐭯 ʾtwly ZY gšnsp[1]Ādur ī Gušnasp; New Persian: آذرگشسبĀzargušasb)[2] was the name of a Zoroastrian sacred fire of the highest grade (Atash Behram), which served as one of the three most sacred fires of pre-Islamic Iran;[3] the two others being the Adur Farnbag and Adur Burzen-Mihr.[4] Out of the three, Adur Gushnasp is the only fire whose temple structure has been discovered and "for which archaeological, sigillographical, and textual evidence are all available."[4]
^Middleton, Sheila Hoey; Corkill, Norman Lace; Montague, Leopold Agar Denys (1998). Seals, Finger Rings, Engraved Gems and Amulets in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter: From the Collections of Lt. Colonel L.A.D. Montague and Dr. N.L. Corkill ; Photographs by Robert Wilkins. Exeter City Museums and the author. p. 90. ISBN 978-1-85522-587-9.
^New Persian variants: آذرگشنسبĀzargušnasb, آذرشسپĀzaršaspc; see Dehkhoda Dictionary
the southwest (Fars, Kerman and Elam), but the biggest are those of AdurGushnasp in Media Minor (see also The Great Fires, below). Many more ruins are...
were the Adur Farnbag, AdurGushnasp and Adur Burzen-Mihr which burned in Pars, Media, and Parthia, respectively. Of these three, the Adur Burzen-Mihr...
Media—the Adur Farnbag and AdurGushnasp respectively—were promoted to rival, and even eclipse, the sacred fire in Parthia, the Adur Burzen-Mehr. The Adur Burzen-Mehr...
(bonfire) . In later Zoroastrianism, ātar (Middle Persian: 𐭠𐭲𐭥𐭥𐭩 ādar or ādur) is iconographically conflated with fire itself, which in Middle Persian...
temple; "They will remove AdurGushnasp from its place . . . on account of (the devastation of) these armies, AdurGushnasp will be carried to Padishkhwargar...
universe And Azar enters the fire temples (domes) and the first of them is Adur Burzen-Mihr who founded in Kashmar and planted a cypress tree in front of...
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